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[Sami+]

I work for the Florida DEP-

Apparently nobody is allowed to write "climate change" in official documents because the governor is Republican. Have to find creative ways around the phrase.

Republicans, man.

 

[Curufinwe]

Republicans will still be denying climate change when the Florida coasts are underwater.

 

[MrSaturn99]

Defend this, Diablos. I dare you to defend this, ou coward. You and the rest of the GAF trumpeteers , as well as the rest of the people in this country, are the reason we are in this mess, so thanks a lot.

He's banned.

My mom was the same way.

"Oh, honey, if he's bad, it's ONLY four years. Besides, we have checks and balances. And I think he's gotten right with God, so I trust him."

I told her, in no uncertain terms, "Mom, he is everything you raised me not to be."

She doesn't like him, but "you stick with your team" and "at least he's not Hillary".

My aunt is far, far more zealous about it. "He's God's chosen man! He's going to save us and make our nation a godly nation again! No more atheists! The Muslim is out of office!"

You can't choose your family.

My condolences.

 

[ahoyhoy]

Isn't electoral college weighted system resulting in not all votes being equal? System like that can be played, surprised it took this long.

The EC was exploited in 2000 as well. The only election in the last 24 years in which the Republican won the popular vote was in 2004.

 

[blu]

Donald solves Climate Change in one move; turns out in reality it was an EPA hoax all along.

 

[Sesha]

I'd never thought America would eventually become an even bigger joke than in the Bush years, but here we are. Although it's a bit more difficult to laugh at you guys this time. I will say thanks to Trump voters for ruining it for the rest of us, though.

 

[Somnid]

The electoral college was meant to prevent this trash. So much for that.

Anyone defending the purpose of the electoral college after this is an idiot. It's nothing but democratic obfuscation and vote suppression all while being completely ineffective at preventing shit-tier candidates.

 

[ZoltanXerxes]

Guys, isn't there other countries doing research on the climate? it sucks that Trump is doing this but the research will go on. (I understand that Trump doesn't want to do anything about the climate so that's bad, but India China are the worst when it comes to pollution).

 

[True Underdog]

My mom was the same way.

"Oh, honey, if he's bad, it's ONLY four years. Besides, we have checks and balances. And I think he's gotten right with God, so I trust him."

I told her, in no uncertain terms, "Mom, he is everything you raised me not to be."

She doesn't like him, but "you stick with your team" and "at least he's not Hillary".

My aunt is far, far more zealous about it. "He's God's chosen man! He's going to save us and make our nation a godly nation again! No more atheists! The Muslim is out of office!"

You can't choose your family.

There's a small rift going on in one side my family between Trump supporters and the ones against him.

Not so surprisingly, with the exception of one person who voted for Trump so he wouldn't have to pay as much taxes, the rift is pretty much along the lines of who has a post secondary education and who doesn't. 🤔

 

[Ishan]

Please do, the sooner American hegemony ends the better.

After my phd Europe was a consideration but main target was Silicon Valley . Now I'm seriously going to give proper thought to places like Netherlands Germany etc .

 

[Finale Fireworker]

My mom was the same way.

"Oh, honey, if he's bad, it's ONLY four years. Besides, we have checks and balances. And I think he's gotten right with God, so I trust him."

I told her, in no uncertain terms, "Mom, he is everything you raised me not to be."

She doesn't like him, but "you stick with your team" and "at least he's not Hillary".

My aunt is far, far more zealous about it. "He's God's chosen man! He's going to save us and make our nation a godly nation again! No more atheists! The Muslim is out of office!"

You can't choose your family.

I left my parent's house permanently on Christmas Day. I don't know when we will speak again. I feel so little kinship with my mother and father at this point that I simply don't care what happens to them. For now, I would prefer to not know them at all.

I admire the strength people have to keep communicating with friends and family who support this administration. I wish I had their patience. I wish I had their understanding. But every day this week has been worse than the day before. The headlines are hammers on my aching heart. The tragedy unfolding all around me is a hot knife in my brain. And as I wince from the agony of my new reality, I think of my mother and father watching Fox News and thinking things are finally turning around.

I am an orphan.

 

[More_Badass]

Anyone defending the purpose of the electoral college after this is an idiot. It's nothing but democratic obfuscation and vote suppression all while being completely ineffective at preventing shit-tier candidates.

It's built on the assumption that public would never be stupid enough to make an insanely unqualified, quantifiably insane person a presidential nominee or that one party would be so vehemently against the people's best interest

 

[Nelo Ice]

Remove the "T" and possibly "E" from that acronym in this instance.

I've found that there are a good deal of people in Computers and Technology are Trump supporters if not simply Republicans. Most are Libertarian leaning, but they regard government as a nuisance to them making more money and climate change as an inconvenience they'd rather just downplay or ignore entirely.

Yep I live in the Bay Area and all the tech people don't give a fuck. Their morals are complete shit. And I'm ashamed I want to get into the industry now after seeing their true face.

 

[Garlador]

My condolences.

I don't really need them. Nearly 50% of the nation needs them more than I do.

The thing is... I understand where my mom, my aunt, and so many others are coming from. Surrounding yourself in a bubble, lamenting the "threat" against Christian religion by "outside" Muslims, of listening to only Fox News, of being well and truly afraid that the nation is going down a dark path with daily news reports of drugs and riots and violence...

It created a massive swell of desperate, terrified people. And the thing about fear is that it makes people irrational. Even kind, loving people when they're afraid will make rash, desperate decisions, often with good but misguided intentions. They want what we all want: to feel safe and to be happy, and they only know that this election cycle, they didn't feel safe and they weren't happy.

So a snake-oil salesman comes along making grandiose promises of restoring their lost joy, of making them feel safe and secure, of doing what the failed politicians have not. He's an outsider. He's a rebel. Surely, if the establishment failed us, a maverick with the backing of the people can restore what partisan rules, regulation, and rhetoric have not. What do they have to lose, they tell themselves.

When people ask how so many people can vote for an inept manchild with zero experience and a proven track record of misogyny and racism, I can only think back at history's examples that caused humanity at large to ask that same question. How did Nazi Germany rise to power? Off the backs of desperate, depressed people who were promised a return to glory. How did Jim Jones manage to convince 918 people to commit suicide? Because he convinced all those desperate people it was the only escape and peace left to them and their broken dreams. "Death is a million times preferable to 10 more days of this life. If you knew what was ahead of you – if you knew what was ahead of you, you'd be glad to be stepping over tonight," he told them. How did we wind up imprisoning 120,000 of our own American citizens in Japanese internment camps? Based on the fears plaguing the white majority following the attack on Pearl Harbor, desperate to lock up all the Asian-Americans to feel safer and more secure in their own homes at night...

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

We are currently repeating history.

And, sadly, I get the impression future generations will read about us right now as a cautionary tale for their own futures.

 

[superdeluxe]

Can you post your list?

Not mine, and I can't verify its accuracy, but I did see this shared around on FB a bit

We are 4 days in.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy.

* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.

* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.

* On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and medics.

* On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains in critical condition.

* On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press.

* On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”

* On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news.

* On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back.

* On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option.

* On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war with China.

* On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.

* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.

* On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.

* On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is of the 2009 inauguration of 44th President Barack Obama, and is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.

* On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts.

* On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House.

* On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote.

* On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways.

* On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.

Woke yet, folks?!

*credit for compilation: Karen Cornett-Dwyer

 

[flkraven]

If eventually Trump pushes the line far enough that even some of the anti-Hillary crowd admit voting for him was a mistake, is that enough evidence to tell them all of their future political opinions are garbage?

 

[More_Badass]

I left my parent's house permanently on Christmas Day. I don't know when we will speak again. I feel so little kinship with my mother and father at this point that I simply don't care what happens to them. For now, I would prefer to not know them at all.

I admire the strength people have to keep communicating with friends and family who support this administration. I wish I had their patience. I wish I had their understanding. But every day this week has been worse than the day before. The headlines are hammers on my aching heart. The tragedy unfolding all around me is a hot knife in my brain. And as I wince from the agony of my new reality, I think of my mother and father watching Fox News and thinking things are finally turning around.

I am an orphan.

My dad is only one who is for Trump, so I've just try to avoid talking politics with him. The real issue is my younger brother, because he just believes what my dad says. (ie Dad, why are people rioting against Trump? Because they're racist liberals). A glimmer of hope is that he believes in climate change and evolution, and thinks our dad is riduclous for thinking it's not science/a hoax

 

[OG Shaka Zulu]

There's a small rift going on in one side my family between Trump supporters and the ones against him.

Not so surprisingly, with the exception of one person who voted for Trump so he wouldn't have to pay as much taxes, the rift is pretty much along the lines of who has a post secondary education and who doesn't. 🤔

Lmao same here. The loud and proud supporters in my family are obnoxious. Trump can do no wrong at the moment and they want "CNN and the liberal agenda defeated once and for all".

 

[Inferno313]

I left my parent's house permanently on Christmas Day. I don't know when we will speak again. I feel so little kinship with my mother and father at this point that I simply don't care what happens to them. For now, I would prefer to not know them at all.

I admire the strength people have to keep communicating with friends and family who support this administration. I wish I had their patience. I wish I had their understanding. But every day this week has been worse than the day before. The headlines are hammers on my aching heart. The tragedy unfolding all around me is a hot knife in my brain. And as I wince from the agony of my new reality, I think of my mother and father watching Fox News and thinking things are finally turning around.

I am an orphan.

My fiancé's in a similar position. Both of her parents love Trump, while we're over here having our heart broken with every new piece of news, attending marches and protests, and trying our hardest to push back against this heinous new administration. Unfortunately, we're still relying on them for a little bit of financial support right now, as my fiancé is between jobs. She feels that as soon as she finds decent work though, we're going to be drastically limiting our contact with them, and we both agree they likely won't have much of a relationship with their grand-children, should my fiancé and I actually have children. (Something the current shape of the world might cause as to pass on)

It really sucks, but there's only so many hate-filled holiday rants you can take.

 

[Always-honest]

Not mine, and I can't verify its accuracy, but I did see this shared around on FB a bit

We are 4 days in.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy.

* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.

* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.

* On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and medics.

* On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains in critical condition.

* On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press.

* On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”

* On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news.

* On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back.

* On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option.

* On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war with China.

* On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.

* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.

* On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.

* On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is of the 2009 inauguration of 44th President Barack Obama, and is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.

* On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts.

* On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House.

* On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote.

* On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways.

* On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.

Woke yet, folks?!

*credit for compilation: Karen Cornett-Dwyer

Wow..

 

[Alex_Mexico]

I expect PBS, NPR, and NASA to be on the chopping block soon.

I find that very ironic because historically wasn't the Democratic party the one that spent less on NASA than Republicans?

Fuck the GOP. They're just fucking evil at this point. I'm hoping history is going to look back at them and judge them. Harshly.

 

[PinkyMonkey]

Surprisingly, climate.nasa.gov is still up.

 

[Evolved1]

Everything that is innately important to me they are attacking. It is difficult to even process it, to be completely honest.

 

[BoboBrazil]

I find that very ironic because historically wasn't the Democratic party the one that spent less on NASA than Republicans?

Fuck the GOP. They're just fucking evil at this point. I'm hoping history is going to look back at them and judge them. Harshly.

This is the country where half the people are idiots that couldn't remember the horrible shit that happened 8 years under Bush. Good luck for them remembering the GOP harshly.

 

[More_Badass]

* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.

* On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.

This is insane.

I mean, all of it is insane, but I didnt know about those two

 

[Garlador]

Everything that is innately important to me they are attacking. It is difficult to even process it, to be completely honest.

I really do think that Women's March spooked him so deeply that some of this might be backlash against the protesters. "Oh yeah? Well I'm cutting funding to THIS Civil Rights organization! And I'm putting a gag order on the EPA! And how dare you tell me not to employ torture tactics! I'm the president! You can't tell me what to do! Torture is back on the menu! What other rights do you cling to? I'll go after those, too!"

He's shook and, like any toddler being told "no", he's grown angry and petty and spiteful. Only this is a big baby with the nuclear launch codes.

But if he thinks that trying to silence the media and strip Americans of their rights will be the end of it... he's sorely mistaken.

There are things worth fighting for, and worth dying for, and in the war between the American people and his fragile ego, I'd put my money on him breaking long before the American people do.

If he expects us to just shut up and go quietly into the night, he's going to be in for a very rude awakening and a very miserable term in office.

 

[Ishan]

Remove the "T" and possibly "E" from that acronym in this instance.

I've found that there are a good deal of people in Computers and Technology are Trump supporters if not simply Republicans. Most are Libertarian leaning, but they regard government as a nuisance to them making more money and climate change as an inconvenience they'd rather just downplay or ignore entirely.

Irrespective of their views on govt influence tech ppl don't deny climate change . They might not be on the same page on other issues but i highly doubt they have a it's not true attitude that some republicans do towards science and facts.

 

[marrec]

Guys, isn't there other countries doing research on the climate? it sucks that Trump is doing this but the research will go on. (I understand that Trump doesn't want to do anything about the climate so that's bad, but India China are the worst when it comes to pollution).

The vast majority of funding for climate science and observation comes from the US, mostly because we have the most/newest satellites and equipment. Even other agencies which would theoretically step up to fill the void would likely have to petition the US government for satellite use.

This science is extremely important to the future of humanity and it doesn't matter who is the worst when it comes to pollution when it comes to that importance.

 

[Sami+]

What really gets me is that even though they're going to be actively trying to kill us for the next four years (at least), the moment the Democrats have the upper hand they're going to reach across the aisle and allow them to fight back because liberals are a bunch of fucking losers. Rainbows and sunshine and flowers and love.

I truly wish Democrats would outwardly and openly HATE Republicans the same way they do us.

 

[Alex_Mexico]

Irrespective of their views on govt influence tech ppl don't deny climate change . They might not be on the same page on other issues but i highly doubt they have a it's not true attitude that some republicans do towards science and facts.

The only first world nation where half of its government (and thus I assume population) denies climate change is the US. Every other country just takes it as a fact and don't even challenge it. Even my in many ways backwards ass third world Mexico takes it as a fact! Climate change denying is not a thing here! We have other shit to worry about but our past President believed it and now our present one from a rival political party (who has dismal approval ratings like Trump as well) also believes in it.

Denying climate change is almost exclusively an American thing, I swear.

 

[Woorloog]

Denying climate change is almost exclusively an American thing, I swear.

Undoubtedly every nation has some people who deny climate change but i'm pretty sure USA is the only place where it is a systematic thing.

I mean, fucking North Korea accepts its existence and is doing small things to fight it (planting trees, which is still more than Republicans do).

 

[Seiryoden]

The only first world nation where half of its government (and thus I assume population) denies climate change is the US. Every other country just takes it as a fact and don't even challenge it. Even my in many ways backwards ass third world Mexico takes it as a fact! Climate change denying is not a thing here! We have other shit to worry about but our past President believed it and now our present one from a rival political party (who has dismal approval ratings like Trump as well) also believes in it.

Denying climate change is almost exclusively an American thing, I swear.

There's a strand of British conservatism that shares this absurd position, but it's not as influential as its American counterpart to be sure.

 

[Ac30]

Isn't electoral college weighted system resulting in not all votes being equal? System like that can be played, surprised it took this long.

It got "played" twice in the last 16 years, for Republian benefit.

 

[Alex_Mexico]

My dream is the Democrats take a few seats in 2018, then steamroll in 2020 and just go complete bonkers ape-shit on the Republicans.

Thats mine too but if this election was anything to go by Democratic voters suck monkey balls. The level of apathy towards the election was unbelievable.

A good start would be to choose a better candidate that fucking Hillary Clinton.

 

[Linkark07]

The only first world nation where half of its government (and thus I assume population) denies climate change is the US. Every other country just takes it as a fact and don't even challenge it. Even my in many ways backwards ass third world Mexico takes it as a fact! Climate change denying is not a thing here! We have other shit to worry about but our past President believed it and now our present one from a rival political party (who has dismal approval ratings like Trump as well) also believes in it.

Denying climate change is almost exclusively an American thing, I swear.

If only it would affect the US... if only. Shame that the stupidity of your politicians threaten the lives of everyone in this planet.

 

[Alex_Mexico]

Undoubtedly every nation has some people who deny climate change but i'm pretty sure USA is the only place where it is a systematic thing.

I mean, fucking North Korea accepts its existence and is doing small things to fight it (planting trees, which is still more than Republicans do).

Even China! Arguably the world's biggest polluter believes in climate change!

There are nonbelievers everywhere but no country has half of its population thinking its all a hoax where they're so many it can be used as leverage in elections!

 

[Garlador]

Even China! Arguably the world's biggest polluter believes in climate change!

There are nonbelievers everywhere but no country has half of its population thinking its all a hoax where they're so many it can be used as leverage in elections!

I think we might be the only nation on the planet that still, officially, denies climate change. I tried looking up other nations and even North Korea believes in climate change.

A July report by the Sierra Club found that the leaders of the 195 independent states of the world all acknowledge climate science and the need for action. The study concludes that “if elected, Donald Trump would be the only world leader today to deny the science of climate change. In fact, a review of the data indicates that Trump might very well be the only world leader not calling for urgent climate action.” Well, now that has come to fruition.

Insane.

 

[TheOctodad]

California stepping it up:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article120928688.html

“We’ve got the scientists, we’ve got the lawyers and we’re ready to fight. We’re ready to defend,” Governor Brown said to boisterous applause at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco.

“And, if Trump turns off the satellites, California will launch its own damn satellite,” he added. “We’re going to collect that data.”

He said if the federal government “starts messing with” the state’s renowned science facilities, such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “I am the president of the Board of Regents. I am going to say, ‘Keep your hands off. That laboratory is going to pursue good science.’ ”

“We will set the stage. We’ll set the example,” Brown added. “And whatever Washington thinks they are doing, California is the future.”

 

[Deleted member 125677]

It's quite impressive how this administration is somehow consistently managing to do even worse than we could possibly imagine beforehand. Like we know stupid shit would happen, stupid shit would be said, but they're really going all in total-moron mode with every decision, speeches, press relations and public appearances so far!

 

[RPGCrazied]

California stepping it up:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article120928688.html

I love California! Wish I could move there, liberal paradise.

 

[HvySky]

California stepping it up:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article120928688.html

Fuck. Yes.

 

[Woorloog]

California stepping it up:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article120928688.html

Governor of California? How long before Trump gets mad at a state leader defying federal agenda?

 

[UberTag]

I work for the Florida DEP-

Apparently nobody is allowed to write "climate change" in official documents because the governor is Republican. Have to find creative ways around the phrase.

Republicans, man.

How much longer until they have climate and environment books pulled from schools, libraries and Amazon? They could have a good ole-fashioned book burning.

Make it illegal to teach kids about climate change in schools. Bar it from the curriculum. Environmental science is the devil's work.

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

Not mine, and I can't verify its accuracy, but I did see this shared around on FB a bit...

*Insert The Don's Deeds Here*

Man, with all that funding cut we should be well on our way to getting the country out of debt.

 

[RPGCrazied]

How much longer

Not long, did you see that DeVos character? She will be in charge of schools. :/

 

[UberTag]

Not long, did you see that DeVos character? She will be in charge of schools. :/

I suppose we know the first thing she'll be doing once she's confirmed then now, don't we?
That's okay, though... the schools will still have their guns to protect against grizzlies.

 

[nelsonroyale]

I find that very ironic because historically wasn't the Democratic party the one that spent less on NASA than Republicans?

Fuck the GOP. They're just fucking evil at this point. I'm hoping history is going to look back at them and judge them. Harshly.

I don't think we can leave it to history...if things get bad enough he will need to be kicked out. If he can't see the bigger picture, then he doesn't deserve to wield so much influence. We can't be reasonable forever...

 

[More_Badass]

How much longer until they have climate and environment books pulled from schools, libraries and Amazon? They could have a good ole-fashioned book burning.

Make it illegal to teach kids about climate change in schools. Bar it from the curriculum. Environmental science is the devil's work.

And the parents will cheer since their kids won't be forced to learn about that liberal propaganda

 

[darscot]

I'm really confused how any of this sort of thing is legal. They can just order people what to do? Like you Trump walks in and everyone says yes m'lord. What happened to land of the free, home of the brave, the endless chant of USA, the rest of the world has to suffer through. Is no one capable of just saying no I'm not going to do it. Why do individuals all act like their boss is Darth Vader.

 

[BowieZ]

California stepping it up:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article120928688.html

It's heartening that at least some people in government are standing up for facts, science, data, research and analysis.

And up to half the country thinks those are dirty words.